Secrets of Effective Office Humor
Employers prefer to hire people with a sense of humor, studies show. Work Family columnist Sue Shellenbarger and humor coach Andrew Tarvin join Lunch Break with some insights into the art of telling...
View ArticleWatch hilarious video of the Belgian squad preparing for their clash with France
By Graeme Yorke PUBLISHED: 18:11 EST, 13 August 2013 | UPDATED: 18:11 EST, 13 August 2013 The Belgian squad have prepared for their clash with local rivals France by watching some television. In a...
View ArticleSaints Row IV is relentlessly funny and surprisingly touching (review)
I knew what to expect when I started Saints Row IV. Developer Volition’s 2011 hit Saints Row: The Third is a celebration of brash and stupid humor with solid mechanics and a good variety of activities....
View ArticleA Review of ‘A Funny Thing Happened,’ in Sag Harbor
Here, Peter Scolari plays the lead role of Pseudolus, a slave who desires above all else to gain his freedom, in an engaging performance that is deadpan and droll, filled with understated comic...
View ArticleLake Bell’s Directorial Debut, ‘In a World…’, Is Consistently Funny
Accents Early in In a World…, Carol (Lake Bell) hears from a female film producer that she’s hired her not because she’s the best person for the job, but because she’s using her to send a feminist...
View ArticleWoman Escapes House Fire With Keepsakes and Sense of Humor – NBC 5 Dallas
advertisement Woman Escapes Fire With Bible, Sense of Humor WATCH More Photos and Videos Two homes were damaged in Rowlett Friday morning after a fire on Magnolia Lane. Rowlett Battalion Chief Sean...
View ArticleMatt Hagan tops NHRA qualifying
BRAINERD, Minn. — Funny Car points leader Matt Hagan topped qualifying Friday in the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway. Hagan had a run of 4.044 seconds at 315.34 mph in his...
View ArticleBabe Ruth In The Funny Papers
My father turned 36 in 1973. My twin sister and I were 2 and for his birthday my mother gave him a book called Great Comics, a collection of classic comic strips syndicated by the New York Daily News...
View ArticleIsaak brings hit tunes, wicked sense of humor to the Uptown – Vallejo Times
Even on a bad day when you have to trudge back on stage for an encore, it sure beats boxing. Now, getting punched in the head. That’s a treat. Though it’s been years since Chris Isaak laced on the...
View ArticlePak-American poet takes the path of humor and satire
Muhammad Mujahid Syed Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — ”I never take the beaten path as a poet of humor and satire. The humor and satire, especially in the poetry, are not so easy, as it looks. This way is...
View ArticleSpike Lee raises $1.25m on Kickstarter for ‘bloody, funny, sexy’ film
Spike Lee‘s Kickstarter campaign has reached the film-maker’s $1.25m target. Lee reached his goal on Saturday. His Kickstarter has seen more than 5,000 backers donate a total of $1,325,481 to date. The...
View ArticleA funny thing happened to me on the way to the Apple store
If you’ve read many of my posts, you know that I have this love/hate relationship with Apple products. I love them for their coolness, their design, their software, their ease of use, and their ability...
View Article‘American Horror Story’s’ Sarah Paulson on humor amid the fright
Join Emmy nominee Sarah Paulson, star of FX’s “American Horror Story: Asylum,” for a live chat on Monday at 2 p.m. PDT. By Yvonne Villarreal August 19, 2013, 5:45 p.m. Sarah Paulson was relieved that...
View ArticleLeast funny jokes of 2013 Edinburgh Fringe
• Ben Van Der Velde - “Swastika in Geordie means something that used to be a sticker.” • Nikhil Tiwali - “What do you call a pink flower that comes back from the dead? A re-in-carnation.” • Pat Cahill...
View ArticleZach Wilt: Baseball is a funny game
I’m sure you’ve heard people say “baseball is a funny game.” It’s typically the cliche saying that fans throw out when they can’t explain the outcome of the three-hour sporting event they dedicate...
View ArticleNot just clowning around: Memory conquers humor
Children, children. Here we are in the midst of a bloody clash in Egypt, more than 100,000 slaughtered in Syria, another looming debt crisis at home, and we’re consumed with angst over a rodeo clown...
View ArticleNot Funny: Clerk Critically Injured In Hasselhoff Sign Theft
One of the promotional images for Cumberland Farms’ “Iced Hoffee.” Cumberland Farms’ Facebook page What’s been a relatively amusing trend in New England — the theft in the past year of more than 550...
View ArticleDave Barry a Finalist for Humor Prize
NEW YORK (AP) — Dave Barry and former Saturday Night Live writer Alan Zweibel are in the running for a top humor prize. Lunatics, a novel co-written by Barry and Zweibel, is a finalist for the Thurber...
View Article22 reasons Portland isn’t funny
A lot of lists/surveys/polls get sent our way, and we possibly publish more of them than we should … but a new one has caught our attention – The 50 Funniest Cities in America – because Portland came...
View ArticleAlessandra Ambrosio’s ‘Funny Or Die’ Cameo Proves The Model Has A Sense …
Alessandra Ambrosio‘s latest project proves she’s not just a pretty face… by making the model downright ugly. Believe it or not, it’s possible. Knee-slapping comedy site Funny or Die works some serious...
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